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cobaltvsvanilla-cookbook

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

cobaltvanilla-cookbook
Score83/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 45 in Download Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars45 600158
Stars, last 30 days+1 790+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageSvelteJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

cobalt scores 83/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for cobalt.

cobalt is growing faster right now (+1 790 stars in 30 days).

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